Fun things for kids in Nashville

If you were taking ten 7th & 8th graders to Nashville for the Beta Convention, what would you have them do while in town? TN folks, help us out.

Thanks!

I'd take them to the interactive Science Center on Fort Negley Blvd.

I wouldSEND the 'Children' to Poverty Pete's Learning Center, then I would sit in a shady place with these and a few more in front of me.

God Bless anyone with the strength to endure the Jr High Age teaching experience !!
Signed- A retired Teacher !!

I'm married to the teacher. He was principal of a 700 student school where you need one of your Kool-Aids to face the day. Office hours ranged from 6:30 in the AM until the basketball, football, band contest, prom etc ended - which could be midnight. Then you get up & do it again tomorrow. It was a pain just being married to the principal. And we did not ever answer our phone at home!!

After a year of retirement, he is now tutoring on the Choctaw Reservation. A lot less stress!!

Congratulations on the choice of less stress! I went back to the classroom after 20 years of administrative B S, working the hours you mentioned. After 4 years in the classroom (with Seniors and Comm College students) the Leadership pushed me hard to accept a Principalship. I turned them down, which they thought was stupid and thereafter treated me as a "Non-Team Player". The pay difference would have been about $25 K a year. For that I would have given up(1.)- being able to leave at 12:40 PM each day (I had last period Prep) and (2.)- my contacts with students who weren't sent in for some 'crime'. Teachers worked a 175 day calandar, while the Admin was 220 days and most likely actually worked many more days than that. I picked up a couple of sections of Comm. College Economics at nite that made up the salary difference and recruited my H S students into the sections so we could "kill two birds with one stone" so to speak. Best career decisions I ever made...other than taking the buy-out offer in 2000 that let us retire at 57 to Southern Indiana.

ON the Subject. Nashville has some great places to visit. Check the city website for some locations of interest.